Sentences with phrase «known by physicists»

Short bursts can unleash enormous amounts of power, a fact well known by physicists — and perhaps aliens too.

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Physicists could look for evidence of other universes using tools designed to measure ripples in spacetime — also known as primordial gravitational waves — that would have been generated by the universe's initial expansion from the Big Bang.

I mean if the quantum physics proposed by so many Physicist are correct, string theory, who knows right.

I want to know if they think physicist Paul Davie is right about the obvious creation of universe governing physical laws, if Einstein was right in a God presence and what they think about quantum mechanics that goes back to von Neumann, where one is led by its logic (as Wigner and Peierls were) to the conclusion that not everything is just matter in motion.

Leon Lederman, the well - know physicist in his book on the history of particle physics, The God Particle, (GP 175) expresses the unavoidable finitude as a limit of knowledge expressed by what Max Planck called the «quantum of action,» now known as Planck's Constant: «Heisenberg announced that our simultaneous knowledge of a particle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constant, b...

A flamboyant Lebanese - born physicist known as Dr. K, Dr. Kaloyeros was also at the center of a separate complaint brought by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman.

Let me preface this by saying that as a physicist, I know little about the inner workings of the legal world, but here's my guess based on reading newspaper and blog accounts.

In 2012, four physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara — Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski and James Sully, known collectively by physicists as AMPS — shocked the physics community with the results of a thought experiment.

The oldest - known map of the moon from naked eye observations, drawn by English physician and physicist William Gilbert and not published until 1651 in his De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova (New Sublunary Philosophy of the World).

By the late 1990s, results emerging from string theory had most theoretical physicists convinced that Hawking was wrong about information loss, but Hawking, known for his stubbornness, dug in his heels.

Youthful but no longer young by Einstein standards, Gates is a rare bird: an African - American theoretical physicist.

Calculations run with this model show that these spaces are described by well - known quantum Fermi - Dirac, and Bose - Einstein statistics, used in quantum mechanics, indicating that they could be useful to physicists working on quantum gravity.

Now, Jeffrey Hangst, an experimental physicist at Aarhus University in Denmark, and his 48 colleagues at the ALPHA collaboration at CERN have precisely measured the energy difference between antihydrogen's lowest energy state, called the 1S, and a higher energy state known as the 2S, by far the most precisely measured transition in ordinary hydrogen.

Some physicists worry that by fixating on it and other «known unknowns», such as supersymmetry, the LHC might be missing other, more interesting, particles (see «Is the LHC throwing away too much data?»).

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

By 1917, physicists knew that quantum physics played a part in the working of atoms, but the details were fuzzy.

The idea proposed by the three physicists offers a new strategy for addressing a long - standing conundrum in physics known as the black hole information paradox.

In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation, a phenomenon by which a black hole should give off a stream of particles from its outer boundary.

Dreamy - eyed physicists have effused about the potential of stellar power, also known by the more prosaic name of space - based solar power, or SBSP, since the 1960s.

21 SOLAR SHUTDOWN Back in the 1970s, when it seemed that the sun was not emitting the expected number of particles known as neutrinos, some solar physicists proposed that our star might go through million - year stretches of reduced activity, during which time its brightness could drop by perhaps 40 percent.

A team of scientists, led by University of Illinois physicist Peter Schiffer, has reported direct visualization of magnetic charge crystallization in an artificial spin ice material, a first in the study of a relatively new class of frustrated artificial magnetic materials - by - design known as «Artificial Spin Ice.»

A team of University of Toronto physicists led by Alex Hayat has proposed a novel and efficient way to leverage the strange quantum physics phenomenon known as entanglement.

In case you missed the news, a team of physicists reported in September that the tiny subatomic particles known as neutrinos could violate the cosmic speed limit set by Einstein's special theory of relativity.

One example is known as the Casimir effect, predicted to exist in 1948 by the late Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir, in which quantum fluctuations create an attractive force between two surfaces in a vacuum.

Andrew Daley, a physicist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and his colleagues provoked this bond by pumping an ultracool, high - density collection of rubidium atoms — known as a Bose - Einstein condensate — into a 3 - D «cage» of laser light, known as an optical lattice.

Physicists have gone through three generations of particle accelerators searching for new particles, posited by a theory called supersymmetry, that would drive the Higgs mass down exactly as much as the known particles drive it up.

So you know, naturally occurring neutrinos, byproducts of nuclear plants, and then specifically created neutrinos to be able to study them, are all being chased and hunted down by these physicists to solve the mysteries associated with them.

Knowing that an egg's shape is determined not by the shell itself but by the membrane inside, Stoddard worked with Harvard University physicist L. Mahadevan and his student Ee Hou Yong to come up with a mathematical representation based on the membrane's properties and how much pressure it received — from the developing chick on the inside.

The term is a historical error committed in the 1920s by the influential physicist Robert Millikan, better known as the man who measured the charge of the electron.

And this is something that physicists have been arguing about for a very, very long time, but what the authors of this article point out is that the work by John Bell, but also some more recent experimental work, seems to indicate that in fact there really is a deep nonlocality to the universe; that there really is someway in which there is not some sort of missing x-factor that if we just knew what it was that would explain everything; that we would see the dominos connecting, those invisible tiny dominos connecting those different particles and set up the effect of going one to the other.

No, I spend more time telling people that explanations by physicists who should know better are nonsense.

The collisions will also routinely create particles known as tau leptons, which are highly prized by particle physicists.

Known as phase - change memory (PCM), the idea was first proposed by physicists in the 1960s.

A team led by chemist David Leigh of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology have been working with physicist colleagues to design stable and cheap materials with a property known as «photoluminescence».

Gerald Gabrielse, a Harvard physicist who works on a rival experiment at CERN known as ATRAP, warns that it's easy to be fooled by subtleties of the magnetic traps.

The experiment, developed by physicists from The Australian National University (ANU) and UNSW ADFA, created an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam, known as a Bose - Einstein condensate, replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize.

The researchers, led by Rice physicist Junichiro Kono and graduate student Xinwei Li, observed and measured what's known as a Bloch - Siegert shift in strongly coupled light and matter.

Physicists have found the first direct proof of oscillation between two of the three known types of neutrinos by discovering a tau neutrino in a muon neutrino beam.

[12] In the 1920s, the Bengali physicist Meghnad Saha derived a theory of ionization by extending well - known ideas in physical chemistry pertaining to the dissociation of molecules to the ionization of atoms.

The latest attempt to explain away dark matter is a much - discussed proposal by Erik Verlinde, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam who is known for bold and prescient, if sometimes imperfect, ideas.

The latest team to enter «the shimmer,» as it's become known, is led by psychologist Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and includes a paramedic (Gina Rodriguez), an anthropologist (Tuva Novotny) and a physicist (Tessa Thompson).

Beyond that, we do know that the film, which was originally to be directed by Steven Spielberg, is based on wormhole and time travel theories from Caltech physicist Kip Thorne.

The Action Learning Model was first introduced by Professor Reginald Revans in 1980, who was a noted physicist and the first known Industrial Management Professor.

I don't know what the average IQ of physicists is, but my hunch is that it's high enough that most of us don't feel particularly threatened by a clever bit of marketing.

Meteorologists, physicists, geologists, observational climatologists, etc. know the scientific method when they see it and are appalled when it is violated by warming researchers adjusting the facts to fit their conclusions.

This system is little understood by physicists and computer programmers — but has been known about by oceanographers and hydrologists for decades.

I am sure that physicists would have preferred to get by with just simulations, but they knew that real world tests were the only way to evaluate the models they had.

Now instead we have physicists and engineers attacked and torn down by «post normal science» and armchair ignorami who think they know better.

A physicist is no more likely than a sociologist to know what human emissions will be 50 years from now — if a slight warming would be beneficial or harmful to humans or the natural world; if forcings and feedbacks will partly or completely offset the theoretical warming; if natural variability will exceed any discernible human effect; if secondary effects on weather will lead to more extreme or more mild weather events; if efforts to reduce emissions will be successful; who should reduce emissions, by what amounts, or when; and whether the costs of attempting to reduce emissions will exceed the benefits by an amount so large as to render the effort counterproductive.

First published in 2007 by two Russian physicists, Victor Gorshkov and Anastassia Makarieva, the still little - known biotic pump theory postulates that forests are the driving force behind precipitation over land masses.